<h1><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">美国退伍军人事务部表彰五位在二战时作出贡献的美国华人退伍老兵。其中百岁美国华人司徒女士（图片：右一），</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">25</span><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">岁的时候参加美国陆军护理团部，她在</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">2018 </span><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">年</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">9</span><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">月庆祝了百岁生日，在今年的</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">1 </span><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">月</span><span style="font-family: ".SFUIDisplay-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">29 </span><span style="font-family: ".PingFangSC-Semibold"; font-weight: bold; font-size: 28pt;">日和其他四位健在的华裔退伍老兵领取美国国会金牌。图为联邦交通部长赵小兰与受到表彰的五位健在二战退伍华裔老兵合影。</span></h1><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Elsie Seetoo was 25-years-old </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">when she joined </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">the U.S. Army Nurse </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Corps</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">in China to help </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">the </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">American</span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">forces </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">in WWII. </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Last September,</span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Seetoo </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">celebrated her 100th </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">birthday.</span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">In late January, the centenarian was </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">one of five</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Chinese-American WWII </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">veterans to be </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">awarded with the </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Congressional Gold Medal </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">during </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">a </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">ceremony held </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">at the Department </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">of Veteran </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Affairs in </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">Washington D.C </span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961);">on Jan. 29.</span></h3><p style="font-family: -webkit-standard; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></h3>